Category Archive: Apex Online Find, BangShift APEX, eBay Find

Looking For A Challenge? This 1967 427 Corvette Is More Complete Than It’s Ugliness Implies

If you are the type of hot rodder that looks to be challenged and plays the long game to produce outstanding results, this car is for you. You’re looking at a 1967 427 Corvette and the car may...

eBay Find: Save The World, Save This Project, Be A Hero And Finish A ZX-14 Powered 1972 Honda Z600!

In these trying times of conflict, dissension, and mistrust, the world needs heroes. The world needs people willing to take risks, jump into the breach, get their hands dirty, and take the disparate...

American Powertrain Parting Shift: Watch This Road Racer Attack Sebring In A Stock Car With A Clutchless Trans

On the list of parts we someday aspire to own, a clutchless manual transmission in on them. Why? Because we want to be a boss like the guy in this video who is lapping Sebring in what looks to be an...

Why Does This Awesome Not Happen More Often: 1955 Ford Steel Body On Stock Car Chassis

Doesn’t it seem like, especially with the popularity of nostalgia drag racing that there would be nostalgia stock car racing going crazy all over the country? For as many disaffected NASCAR fas...

Apex Predator: A 1995 Pontiac Firebird That Is Dying To Hit The Apexes!

In nature, the contrast of black and a bright, vibrant color is usually a form of aposematic coloring. Big word, I know, but you know what it means. When you see a black and white furry animal that...

Rough Start: 1989 Merkur XR4ti – Turbo Ford With A German Accent For The Dirt!

At the January King of the Heap race, a Merkur XR4ti showed up. The body had been sitting in a field for quite some time and the engine was fresh enough, but the rumor mill was flying about the...

This Little 1970 Datsun U521 Crew Cab Truck Is Rare, Weird, and Kind Of Awesome

As we speed toward our 30,000th blog item here at BangShift there are some things that continue to surprise us. Firstly is seeing a car or a type of car that we have never seen before or never knew...

Want To Build The Coolest Small Block Ford You Can? Buy This Gurney-Weslake Top End Package – Vintage Power!

We know, we know. Modern heads make more power. Modern heads move more air. Modern heads have decades and decades of development behind them. All thats fine but there ain’t a modern head that...

eBay Gold: Someone Is Selling A 1970 Vintage 426 Hemi Short Block Still In The Original Crate!

When we talk about barn finds, it is always cars but these days we need to start considering parts and components as well because of stuff like this. You are looking at a 1970 vintage 426 Hemi short...

Wow! There Is A Legit 1969 ZL-1 Aluminum Big Block 427 Chevy For Sale On Ebay Right Now

There are certain things that still have an aura about them from the muscle car era, more than a half century after they first appeared. In terms of righteous Chevrolet performance engines, the...

Score! We Found The Perfect Gift For The FE Lover In Your Home – A Complete Latham Axial Flow Blower Setup!

Ahhhh, the internet. Yes, it can be used to sew the seeds of badness on a daily basis in ways that humanity has not even considered yet BUT it is also the kind of place where the impossible becomes...

For Some Reason Owning A 1948 Kurtis V8-60 Midget Seems Like An Awesome Idea Right Now

Now THIS is awesome. We were doing our normal stumble job around eBay looking for things that we cannot afford, things that we should not own, and things that we don’t want anyone else to have...

The “WTF?” Files: This Nissan-Powered 1971 Ford Pinto Has Been Worked Over!

Have you ever seen the translation guide to phrases used to sell a car? Where “rare” means “none of these things lasted over ten years”, and “one careful owner”...

Screaming Yellow Doorstop: This Saab Sonett Has Been Hayabusa Swapped!

Ever refer to a small car as a go-kart? We’ve all probably done it at some point in time. I think a C5 Corvette is a great go-kart…then again, I fit in a C5 like a go-kart. Maybe a Honda...